A new hypothesis suggests that the breaking apart and eventual collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 – the first space rock ever directly observed hitting another Solar System body, Jupiter ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

the comparatively weaker gravity of planets can still influence comet orbits in significant ways. As the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter has the strongest influence after the Sun ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

Citizen Science Reveals That Jupiter's Colorful Clouds Are Not Made ... 2024 — Researchers studying meteor showers have found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the ...

At its brightest, Venus has a magnitude of -4.5, while Jupiter and Mars are around -3. Despite hopes that the comet would be visible during the day, it did not get bright enough during its brush ...

NASA caught images from the comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), making its closest ... explorers a recent image of a color-enhanced view of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno mission taken in December 2024 and ...

in the constellation Cassiopeia and Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, which orbits between Jupiter and Neptune. Here’s when you’ll see the next full moon, comets constellations and more.

Additionally, the ATLAS comet, discovered last year by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial ... We’ve got Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars all visible. Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? But a little bit, ...